| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: this respect it enjoys the privileges of a real legislative body:
at the same time it exercises an executive power in the county,
frequently directs the administration of the townships, and
restricts their authority within much narrower bounds than in
Massachusetts.
[Footnote g: See the Revised Statutes of the State of New York,
part i. chap. xi. vol. i. p. 340. Id. chap. xii. p. 366; also in
the Acts of the State of Ohio, an act relating to county
commissioners, February 25, 1824, p. 263. See the Digest of the
Laws of Pennsylvania, at the words County-rates and Levies, p.
170.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: to myself, "You are in for it now," and, feeling my way along the
tunnel, I found the noise of machinery grow louder. Presently
the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space,
and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched
cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of
my light. The view I had of it was as much as one could see in
the burning of a match.
`Necessarily my memory is vague. Great shapes like big
machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black
shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare.
The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: in Paris; tall Cointet was too clever not to know this, and to turn
the meaner passions that move a pettifogging lawyer to good account.
An eminent attorney in Paris, and there are many who may be so
qualified, is bound to possess to some extent the diplomate's
qualities; he had so much business to transact, business in which
large interests are involved; questions of such wide interest are
submitted to him that he does not look upon procedure as machinery for
bringing money into his pocket, but as a weapon of attack and defence.
A country attorney, on the other hand, cultivates the science of
costs, broutille, as it is called in Paris, a host of small items that
swell lawyers' bills and require stamped paper. These weighty matters
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